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Ricardo Eufemio Molinari (20 May 1898 – 31 July 1996) was an Argentine poet.[1]
Early life and education
editMolinari was born in Buenos Aires on 20 May 1898 and was orphaned when he was five.[2] He was raised by his Uruguayan maternal grandmother in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Urquiza.[2]
Molinari left his studies to dedicate himself to poetry.[2]
Career
editMolinari's poetic influences were Spanish classic poetry such as the romance, the copla, and the sonnet, plus French poetry, in particular the poet Mallarmé.[2]
As a young man, he contributed to the avant-garde Argentinian literary magazine Martín Fierro, along with other writers as Jorge Luis Borges, whom he befriended.[2][3]
His first book of poetry was El imaginero, published in 1927.[2]
In 1933 he traveled to Spain where he met with the Spanish poets of the Generation of '27.[2]
Molinari worked as a modest civil servant[4] in the National Congress of Argentina until his retirement.[2]
In 1958 he was awarded the Argentine National Prize for Poetry for his work Unida Noche, and in 1968 he became a member of the country's Academia Argentina de Letras.
One of his most famous books is also one of his last: La escudilla (1973). The poetry collection Las sombras del pájaro tostado (1975) collects almost all of his works.
Major works
edit- Una rosa para Stefan George 1934
- El tabernáculo, 1937
- La corona, 1939
- El alejado, 1943
- Mundos de la madrugada, 1943
- Esta rosa oscura del aire, 1949
- Días donde la tarde es un pájaro, 1954
- Cinco canciones a una paloma que es el alma, 1955
- Oda a la pampa, 1956
- La hoguera transparente, 1970
- La escudilla, 1973
References
edit- ↑ "Molinari, Ricardo E. (1898–1996) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Falleció el escritor Ricardo Molinari : el poeta de la solitaria naturaleza" [Writer Ricardo Molinari has died: the poet of solitary nature]. La Nacion (in Spanish). 2 August 1996. Retrieved 3 February 2026.
- ↑ "Ricardo E. Molinari o la aventura del sentimiento – Hablar de poesía" (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ↑ "Biografia de Ricardo E. Molinari". www.biografiasyvidas.com. Retrieved 13 May 2026.